News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Will humans write code in 2040?. Parent comment

Re:Will humans write code in 2040? by npgatech on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @09:55PM (#15867249)
Also don’t forget - we still have to write certain routines in Assembly even after so many years. Number of abstraction layers doesn’t mean complete automation.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Will humans write code in 2040? by zitterbewegung on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @10:09PM (#15867319)
Going from high level to low level code will not go away. But, for the most part you would probably try to get something working and then optimize it. http://wiki.c2.com/?PrematureOptimization
[ Parent | on HN ]